Family Style I grew up in New York in a very Italian family. Holidays revolved around food. I remember plates and bowls of soup, salad, meat, pasta, and side dishes were placed around the table and then passed around. Some of those plates and bowls were the sizes of small European countries. This allowed you…
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What Gets Measured… Gets Done? There is a famous saying, “What gets measured gets managed”, or “What gets measured, gets done”. It's often attributed to Peter Drucker (but his organizations said it was not him initially). Other sources say it was coined by William Thomson, the Scottish physicist also known as Lord Kelvin. That dude…
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I just read an article about how companies are laying people off and they feel betrayed. They attracted people with a fun family atmosphere, and then laid them off like the expenses that they always were. I luckily learned a lesson back in the 1980s when I worked at AT&T. During a performance review, I…
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I am sure you probably had a conversation with a toddler at one point in your life. It probably was something like this… Get ready, we're going to the store Why? Because we need food. Why? Because we are out of milk. I DON'T LIKE MILK ANYMORE! Why? Because it hurts cows. Why? (You get…
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When I say “Whiff” what do you think of? Are you imagining a baseball, moving at 100 mph, dropping out of the strike zone as the batter takes a swing at strike three? Or are you thinking of waking up, and catching the smell of BACON wafting throughout your living space? Have you heard the…
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I have often heard that the clock is set back one hour in the fall and your scale should be set back 10 pounds during the Holiday season. ‘Tis the season for holiday parties. There are cookies everywhere. There are cookie exchanges because you can't get enough. You can't eat all your own cookies (well…
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